@daveburb What I have noticed in regard to "traditions" is that a great many Christians are blind to the fact that they are following a tradition: they think that what they are following is scripture. All doctrine is tradition: it is a traditional interpretation of scripture, but it is, nonetheless, tradition. This is fine if one understands what scripture the doctrine is based upon, but when one starts arguing from doctrine rather than arguing from scripture, the foundation starts to become shaky.
I've seen it in everyone from ministers to lay believers: doctrine treated as scripture. And the saddest thing is that they have no idea that they are doing it.

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@daveburb It's interesting to note that, when Jesus walked on the water, the author remarks that the disciples "had forgotten about the feeding of the five thousand, and had hardened their hearts". The *disciples* had hardened their hearts. That's astonishing. They, who had witnessed so much, still couldn't accept it all.
Do we find it easier because it was long ago and far away; because it isn't confronting us right here, right now?
Or do we reject it precisely because it was long ago and far away; that "people back then" were ignorant and gullible?

Consider this, that some denominations preach that the age of miracles is gone, the gifts of the Spirit don't exist, that miracles only happened in order to establish the Church initially, and they aren't needed any more. (What rubbish. What utter rubbish.)

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@daveburb Ah, I didn't pick up that it was the same area as the demonic man. That's a good point.

There's a piece of evengelical jargon: "witnessing", which means, basically "preaching at people whether they are receptive or not"(*) -- but the origin of that is, "bearing witness" - that is, simply reporting what one has witnessed; God's work in one's own life. And that's what the demonic man did: he reported what had happened; and the people he told it to knew he was speaking the truth, because they knew him, they knew what had happened to him before, and his body itself was evidence of the miracle.

(*) Yes, I am being cynical - brought up evangelical, and I resented the constant pressure to be, as I saw it, extroverted and fake.

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@daveburb Ah, good point about the pigs! I was more taken by the "we're upset because we lost our property, we don't care that a human was saved" aspect of it.

Another interesting point was that Jesus said, No, you can't follow me, go back to your friends and family. That, I think was a big challenge for the guy, because he probably didn't want to face the people that had known him before he was possessed, and who had seen his shame when he became possessed; people he could well have hurt badly.

Another interesting thing is how, with the demon-possessed man, Jesus said "tell everybody what God did for you", while with the girl, he said "Don't tell anyone what happened." Just like he did with the leper earlier (only the leper didn't shut up). One can only speculate why Jesus asked them to do different things. One speculation: the demon-possessed man was not Jewish, and the people there were not welcoming, so it was better that Jesus encourage the word to spread, while with the girl, Jesus didn't need more publicity amongst the Jews, he already had far too much...

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We get told that parables are a great teaching method -- but no! They were a deliberately bad teaching method, chosen so that people wouldn't understand. Because if they understood, they might be saved. Whoa. That's backwards. Baffling.

No, I don't think Mark made up the explanation; it even says in the text that Jesus explained the parables afterwards, to the disciples *and those around them*. I take that to mean that Mark wasn't a disciple, but he was a hanger-on, so to speak.

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@daveburb Starting off with a continuation of "Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for Man", by healing the man with the withered hand, on the Sabbath.
And Jesus was angry at the hardness of their hearts. That's notable: because we often get told that "anger is bad" -- but it depends on what one is angry about.

Sometimes I'm just baffled about folks who are like the Scribes-and-Pharisees.

They hated him, because they felt threatened by him; they felt threatened by him because he challenged their self-righteousness. Even though they professed to honour God, they had elevated one law above all the others, the law of the Sabbath. Why? Because it was an easy law to keep? Because it was an easy law to condemn others over? Because they felt that if they followed one law to an excessive and exaggerated degree, to more than the letter of it, that would make up for being lax about the others?

Another thing which is sticking in my mind, is from chapter 1 -- "that he spoke with authority, unlike the scribes". So if the scribes spoke "without authority", how did they speak? Does that tie in with how they felt threatened by him?

I'm imagining them with small and withered hearts, filled with petty grievances, self-righteousness, arrogance and pride, with an outward appearance of humility.

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Irenaeus

Irenaeus of Lyons (circa 130-202 AD) is 1 of the most important theologians of the 2nd century. He’s often called the “Father of Catholic Theology.” He served as a crucial bridge between the era of the Apostles & the developed institutional Church of the later Roman Empire.

He was born in Smyrna (modern-day Turkey). He was a student of Polycarp, who was himself a disciple of John the Apostle. This connection to an actual eyewitness of Jesus gave Irenaeus a unique statue. In an era where secret teachings were being whispered in various sects, Irenaeus could claim a direct, public, & verifiable line of “transmission” back to the source.

Around 177 AD, he traveled to Lugdunum (Lyons, in modern-day France) to serve as a priest. Eventually, he became the bishop after his predecessor, Pothinus, was martyred.

Irenaeus’ legacy is defined by his battle against Gnosticism. Gnosticism is a diverse movement that threatened to dismantle early Christianity. Generally, Gnostics believed:

• The material world was evil, created by a lesser, bumbling deity (Demiurge).
• Salvation came through secret, esoteric knowledge (gnosis).
• Jesus didn’t have a physical body (Docetism), as matter was inherently corrupt.

Irenaeus saw this as a total rejection of the Hebrew scriptures & the reality of the Incarnation. To counter this, he wrote his 5-volume masterpiece, “Against Heresies” (Adversus Haereses). Irenaeus’ theology’s centerpiece is the concept of Recapitulation. He argued that Jesus “summed up” all of humanity in Himself.

Just as the 1st Adam failed at the Tree of Knowledge, Jesus (the “new Adam”) succeeded on the tree of the Cross. Irenaeus taught that Jesus went through every stage of mortal human life (infancy, youth, & adulthood) to “sanctify” & “undo” the corruption introduced at each stage of the Fall.

Before Irenaeus’ time, there wasn’t the New Testament as we know it today. Different groups/sects used different, & various, gospels. This is where we get the infamous banned books of the Bible. Irenaeus was the 1st major figure to argue for the Four-Fold Gospel.

He insisted that there could be no more, & no fewer, than 4 Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John), using a poetic justification: just as there are 4 zones of the world (or 4 corners) & 4 principal winds, the Church had to have 4 “pillars” of the Gospel. By doing this, he helped stabilize the core of the Christian Bible.

To fight the Gnostic claim of secret traditions, Irenaeus proposed 2 tests of “Truth”:

• The Rule of Faith:
  • A summary of essential beliefs (a forerunner of the Apostles’ Creed) that all true churches held in common.
• Apostolic Succession:
  • Irenaeus argued that if Jesus had secret knowledge, he would’ve given it to the bishops he appointed.

Irenaeus’ most profound contribution to theology is the concept of Recapitulation (anakephalaiosis). Using the math of his day, he sought to “sum up” the entire human experience through Christ.

To counter his Gnostic opponents, Irenaeus significantly develops Paul’s presentation of Christ as the Last Adam. Irenaeus’ presentation of Christ as the New Adam is based on Paul’s Christ-Adam parallel in Romans 5:12-21.

But also dervies significantly from the Johannine presentation of Adam-Christ typology. Irenaeus uses this parallel to demonstrate that Christ truly took human flesh. Irenaeus considered it important to emphasize this point because he understands the failure to recognize Christ’s full humanity links the various strains of Gnosticism together, as seen in his statement that “according to the opinion of no one of the heretics was the Word of God made flesh.”

Irenaeus believes that unless the Word became flesh, humans weren’t fully redeemed. He explains that by becoming man, Christ restored humanity to bring in the image & likeness of God, which they’d lost in the Fall of Man.

Just as Adam was the original head of humanity through whom all sinned, Christ is the new head of humanity who fulfills Adam’s role in the Economy of Salvation. The Economy of Salvation (a.k.a. Divine Economy) is that part of divine revelation in the Roman Catholic tradition that deals with God’s creation & management of the world, particularly his plan of salvation accomplished through the Church. Irenaeus calls this process of restoring humanity: Recapitulation.

Irenaeus emphasizes the importance of Christ’s reversal of Adam’s actions. Through His obedience, Christ undoes Adam’s disobedience. Irenaeus presents the Passion as the climax of Christ’s obedience, emphasizing how this obedience on the tree of the Cross undoes the disobedience that occurred through a tree.

Irenaeus’ interpretation of Paul’s discussion of Christ as the New Adam is significant because it helped develop the recapitulation theory of atonement.

Irenaeus took part in the Quartodeciman Controversy. When Victor I of Rome tried to force a universal practice of fasting until Easter to supersede the Jewish practice & prevent Christians from partaking of the Passover, Polycrates who led the Churches of Anatolia continued to hold old traditions of the paschal feast. For this reason Victor I wanted to excommunicate Polycrates & his supporters. But this was a step too far for Irenaeus & other bishops.

Tradition holds that he was martyred around 202 AD during the persecution of Emperor Septimius Severus. Thought historical records of his death are sparse compared to his writings.

In 2022, Pope Francis officially declared him a “Doctor of Unity” (Doctor Unitatis), acknowledging his role in bridging the Eastern & Western theological traditions.

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Marcion of Sinope

Marcion of Sinope was born in Sinope (a port city in Pontus, modern-day Turkey). He passed away in circa 160 CE. He was a theologian in early Christianity.

Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus, who was distinct from the “vengeful” God (Demiurge) who had created the world. He considered himself a follower for Paul the Apostle. Marcion believed that Paul was the only true apostle of Jesus. His doctrine is/was called Marcionism. Marcion published the earliest record of a canon of New Testament books.

Early Church writers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, & Tertullian denounced Marcion as a heretic or antichrist. Marcion was excommunicated by the Church of Rome around 144. He published his own canon of Christian sacred scriptures, which contained 10 Pauline epistles (including the Epistle to the Laodiceans, while excluding the Pastoral epistles) & the Gospel of Marcion which historically is claimed to be an edited version of the Gospel of Luke.

This made Marcionism a catalyst in the process of the development of the New Testament canon by forcing the proto-orthodox Church to respond to his canon.

In the late 130s or early 140 CE, Marcion arrived in Rome, joined the Roman church, & donated 200,000 sesterces. This is equal to millions in today’s money. Sesterces are/was an ancient Roman coin, made from silver or brass. He was influential for several years until his “radical” teachings became harder to ignore.

In 144 CE, the Roman elders did something almost unheard of. They gave Marcion his money back! Then Marcion was promptly excommunicated.

Marcion was undeterred by his excommunication. He just switched tactics. He used his shipping routes (he was a mariner & ship-master by trade) to start Marcionite churches all along the Mediterranean. By the end of the 2nd century, the Church Father Tertullian complained that Marcion’s “heretical swarms” were everywhere.

After Marcion’s death, his churches retained their following & survived Christian controversy & imperial disapproval for several centuries.

To Marcion, the God of the Old Testament isn’t the same as the New Testament. He proposed a dualism:

• The Creator (The Demiurge):
  • The God of the Hebrew Bible. He’s just. But harsh, legalistic, & focused on “an eye for an eye.” He created this flawed, material world & is the God of the Jews.
• The Heavenly Father:
  • A previously “Unknown God” of pure mercy & love. This God had no prior connection to humanity until He sent Jesus to save us from the Creator.

The Docetic Connection: Because Marcion believed the Creator made the physical world (flesh), he believed flash was inherently “dirty.” So, the “Good God” would never take on REAL flesh. In Marcion’s view, Jesus came down directly from Heaven to earth as a fully formed grown-up adult man. Jesus skipped birth (no Nativity), childhood (no 12 year old Jesus in the Temple), & biology entirely.

Marcion studied the Hebrew Bible (with some other writings circulating in the nascent Church), which led him to conclude that the teachings of Jesus weren’t compatible with the actions of Yahweh (the God of the Hebrew Bible).

Marcion developed a ditheistic system of belief around 144. The idea of 2 gods – a higher transcendent 1 & a lower world-creator & ruler – allowed Marcion to reconcile his perceived contradictions between Christian Covenant theology & the gospel proclaimed by the New Testament.

So Marcion created/came up with the first-ever “closed” list of Christian books, (which he edited to remove any “pro-Jewish” or “pro-material” sentiment:

• The Gospel of Marcion:
  • A stripped-down version of Luke. He cut the birth narrative, the genealogy, & any mentions to Jesus fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.
• The Apostolikon:
  • 10 letters of Paul (Galatians, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Romans, Philippians, & Philemon).
• The Antitheses:
  • His own theological treatise explaining why the 2 gods were different.

The Church realized that if they didn’t act, Marcion would codify & define Christianity. This led to 3 major developments:

• The Four Gospel Canon:
  • To counter Marcion’s “One Gospel,” the Church emphasized 4 (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) to show a diversity of eyewitnesses.
• The Inclusion of the Old Testament:
  • The Church insisted that the God of Abraham is the Father of Jesus.
• The Apostles’ Creed:
  • Lines like “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven & Earth” were specifically added to refute Marcion’s claim that the Creator was a lesser, separate deity.

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Pastor @trbutler takes us to the Gospel of #Mark ahead of our new series on Isaiah, because what Mark can say reminds us of how God's faithfulness promised in Isaiah is actually true today. https://youtu.be/uAi_T9yRJEY

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